Teppo Felin
 Univ of Oxford
  
  teppo.felin[@]sbs.ox.ac.
uk

   Twitter @teppofelin

EDITORIAL ACTIVITY

` 
Academy of Management Annals, Associate Editor 
[2016-present]

` 
Strategic Organization, 
Co-Editor [2012-2016]

` Academy of Management Review, Editorial Board 
[2011-present]

` Academy of Management Perspectives, E
ditorial Board [2016-present]

` Journal of Management, 
 Editorial Board 
[2013-present]


RECENT INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIONS

Caryn Devins law [html]

Stuart Kauffman theoretical biology [html]

Jan Koenderink psychophysics [html]

Joachim Krueger psychology [html]


2013-2017 OXFORD TALKS

  Howard Aldrich, UNC  
  Lawrence Freedman, KCL
  Brian Uzzi, Northwestern
  Paul Adler, USC
  Julian Birkinshaw, LBS
  Brian Silverman, Toronto
  Matt Kraatz, U of Illinois
  Dan Raff, Wharton
  Willie Ocasio, Northwestern
  Vibha Gaba, INSEAD
  Todd Zenger, U of Utah
  Michael Cusumano, MIT
  Robert Burgelman, Stanford
   Mauro Guillen, Wharton
  Jeff Reuer, U of Colorado
  Gary Dushnitsky, LBS
   Bill Starbuck, Oregon
  Ezra Zuckerman, MIT
  Diane Burton, Cornell
  Russ Coff, U of Wisconsin
  Kim Elsbach, UC Davis
  Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Oregon
  Mark de Rond, Cambridge
  Royston Greenwood, U of Alberta
  Nicolai Foss, CBS
  David Seidl, U of Zurich
  Erkko Autio, Imperial College
  Gianpiero Petriglieri, INSEAD
  Matthew Bothner, ESMT
  Felipe Csaszar, U of Michigan

  Andrea Prencipe, LUISS

  Arne Kalleberg, UNC 


PUBLICATIONS

48. Chater N, Felin T, Funder D, Gigerenzer G, Noble D, Nordli S, Oaksford M, Schwartz B, Stanovich K & Todd P (2018). Mind, rationality and cognition: An interdisciplinary debate. Psych Bulletin & Review. [html] [pdf]

47. Devins C, Felin T, Kauffman S & Koppl R (2018). The law and big data. Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy. [html]

46. Felin, T & Zenger, T (2018). What sets breakthrough strategies apart. MIT Sloan Management Review. 

45. Felin, T & Zenger, T (2017). The theory-based view: Economic actors as theorists. Strategy Science. [html] [pdf]

44. Felin T, Lakhani K & Tushman M (2017). Firms, crowds, and innovation. Strategic Organization.  
[pdf]

43. Felin T, Koenderink J & Krueger J (2017). Rationality, perception, and the all-seeing eye. Psych Bulletin & Review. [html] [pdf]


42. Hallberg N & Felin T (2017). Untangling infinite regress and the origins of capability. Journal of Management Inquiry.

41. Felin T & Zenger T (2016). 
Strategy, problems and a theory for the firm. Organization Science.


40. Felin T, Kauffman S, Mastrogiorgio A & Mastrogiorgio M (2016). Factor markets, actors and affordances. Industrial & Corporate Change. [html]

39. Felin T (2016). When strategy walks out the door. MIT Sloan Management Review. [html]

38. Felin T & Powell T (2016). 
Designing organizations for 
dynamic capabilities. California Management Review.

37. Stirling W & Felin T (2016). Satisficing, preferences and social interaction: A new perspective. 
Theory & Decision. [html]

36. Devins C, Koppl R, Kauffman S & Felin, T (2016). Still against design: A response to Steven Calabresi, Sanford Levinson and Vernon Smith. Arizona State Law Journal. [pdf]

35. David R, Felin T, Langley A, Rowley T, Verona G. 2016. The strategic organization of strategic management scholarship. Strategic Organization.

31. Felin T, Foss N & Ployhart R (2015). Microfoundations movement in strategy and organization theory. Academy of Management Annals.

30. Koppl R, Kauffman S, Felin T & Longo G (2015a). Economics for a creative world. Journal of Institutional Economics.

this paper received the 2016 Elinor Ostrom Prize [html]

29. Devins C, Koppl R, Kauffman S & Felin T (2015). Against design. 
Arizona State Law Journal. [html]

responses to this article by:
Steven Calabresi [pdf], 
Sanford Levinson [pdf], Vernon Smith [pdf] 

28. Felin T, Kauffman S, Koppl R & Longo G (2014). Economic opportunity and evolution: Beyond landscapes and bounded rationality. Strategic 
Entrepreneurship Journal. [html] 

Mark Buchanan discusses this paper in Nature Physics, see here


27. Abell P, Felin T & Foss N (2014). Microfoundations of Social Theory: A Response to Jepperson and Meyer. Sociologica. [html]

26. Felin T & Zenger T (2014). Closed or open innovation? Problem solving and the governance choice. Research Policy. [open access] [pdf]


24. Barney J & Felin T (2013). What are microfoundations? Academy of Management Perspectives. [pdf]

22. Argyres N, Felin T, Foss N & Zenger T (2012). Organizational economics of capability and heterogeneity. Organization Science. [html]

21. Felin T (2012). Cosmologies of capability, markets and wisdom of crowds. Managerial & Decision Economics. [html]

interdisciplinary special issue with contributions from David Sumpter, Scott Page, Robb Willer, Claudio Castellano, Peter Leeson, Bruno Frey, Margit Osterloh and others. 

20. Felin T & Foss N (2012). The (proper) microfoundations of routines and capabilities: a response to Winter, Pentland, Hodgson and Knudsen. 
Journal of Institutional Economics. [pdf]

7. Felin T & Foss N (2009). Performativity of theory, arbitrary conventions, and possible worlds: a reality check. Organization Science. [pdf] [html]

6. Felin T & Zenger T (2009). Entrepreneurs as theorists: on the origins of collective beliefs and novel strategies. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. [pdf] [html] 

5. Felin T, Zenger T & Tomsik J (2009). The knowledge economy: emerging organizational forms, missing microfoundations and key considerations for managing human capital. Human Resource Management.

4. Abell P, Felin T & Foss N (2008). Building microfoundations for the routines, capabilities, and performance links. Managerial & Decision Economics. [pdf] [html]

3. Felin T & Hesterly W (2007). The knowledge-based view, nested heterogeneity, and new value creation: philosophical considerations on the locus of knowledge. Academy of Management Review. [pdf] [html]

2. Felin T & Foss N (2006). Individuals and organizations: thoughts on a microfoundations project for strategic management and organizational analysis. Research Methodology in Strategy and Management.

1. Felin T & Foss N (2005). Strategic organization: a field in search of micro-foundations. Strategic Organization. [pdf]


NEWS

April 20: symposium Big Data and Managing in a Digital Economy [html]

a few items from the past: PLOS ONE piece [html] and special issue with fantastic contributors [html]

teaching online Oxford Blockchain Strategy course [html]


a poem in Oxford Magazine (Trinity Term, Issue No.395) [html]. 

The poem is about Laplace's demon and related points in Borges, Eddington, Turing, Emily Dickinson. But mostly the poem is nonsense and obfuscation.

interview with Geoff Mulgan at the Oxford Literary Festival: book Big Mind (Princeton U Press) [html]

"Creating a hive mind" - short blurb about some research, by Rob Brown [html]

speaking at Edith Penrose book launch in Oxford, 16 Nov 2017 [html]

Sept 2017 Strategy Science conference at Apple, Cupertino, CA: origins of great strategy [html]

Sept 2017 plenary with Nick Chater and Adam Oliver: behavioral science and public policy [html]

90 mile Oxford-Cambridge charity bike ride, British Heart Foundation [donate here]

https://twitter.com/teppofelin/status/645326710288871424

come join our DPhil (PhD) program here in Oxford next year [pdf brochure]



PUBLICATIONS

34. Felin T (2015). A forum on minds and institutions. Journal of Institutional Economics. [html] 

intro to forum with papers by Cass Sunstein & Reid Hastie and Giovanni Dosi & Luigi Marengo

33. Felin T (2015). Valve Corporation: Strategy tipping points and thresholds. Journal of Organization Design. [html]  

commentary on article by Phanish Puranam and Dorthe Håkonsson.[html]

32. Koppl R, Kauffman S, Felin T & Longo G (2015b). Economics for a creative world: A response to comments. Journal of Institutional Economics.


25. Stirling W & Felin T (2013). Game theory, conditional preferences and social influence. PLoS ONE. [html]

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0056751


23. Felin T & Knudsen T (2012). A theory of nascent entrepreneurship and organization. Managerial & Decision Economics. [pdf] [html] 

19. Felin T, Foss N, Heimeriks K & Madsen T (2012). Microfoundations of routines and capabilities: individuals, processes and structures. Journal of Management Studies.

18. Stirling W, Giraud-Carrier C & Felin T (2012). A framework for the design and synthesis of coordinated social systems. 
Social Informatics.

17. Felin T & Foss N (2011). The endogenous origins of experience, routines and organizational capabilities: the poverty of stimulus. Journal of Institutional Economics. [pdf] [html]




16. Felin T & Zenger T (2011). Information aggregation, matching, and radical market-hierarchy hybrids. Strategic Organization.
[pdf] [html]

15. Zenger T, Felin T & Bigelow L (2011). Theories of the firm-market boundary. Academy of Management Annals. [html] [pdf]



14. Abell P, Felin T & Foss N (2010). Causal and constitutive relations and the squaring of coleman's diagram: reply to Vromen Erkenntnis. [html] [pdf]

13. Felin T & Foss N (2009). 
Social reality, the boundaries of self-fulfilling prophecy, and economics. Organization Science. [pdf] [html]

response by Ferraro, Pfeffer & Sutton. How and why theories matter: a comment on Felin and Foss [see here]; editor introduction [see here]

12. Felin T & Foss N (2009). Organizational routines and capabilities: Historical drift and a course-correction toward microfoundations. Scandinavian Journal of Management. [html]

11. King B, Felin T & Whetten D (2009). Comparative organizational analysis. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. [pdf]

review of volume by P Foreman in Administrative Science Quarterly (2010)

10. Felin T & Spender JC (2009). An exchange of ideas about knowledge governance: seeking first principles and microfoundations. In Knowledge Governance, edited by Foss et al. Oxford University Press.

9. King B, Felin T & Whetten D (2010). Finding the organization
 in organization theory: a meta-theory of the organization as social actor. Organization Science. [pdf] [html] 

8. Whetten D, Felin T & King B (2009). Theory-borrowing in organizational studies. Journal of Management. [pdf] [scribd]